Garsington Opera’s season has opened with La traviata, one of Verdi’s middle-period operas (he was not quite 40 at its first ...

Verdi’s story of the “fallen woman” almost rescued by the love of a good man can still wring the heart, no matter how many ...

Louisa Muller’s richly detailed production of Verdi’s tragedy is elevated by Madison Leonard’s magnetic Violetta and Douglas Boyd’s musical direction that reinvigorates the familiar score ...

If you find endless riches in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's words and Richard Strauss's score for their "Comedy for Music", as I do ...

Bruno Ravella’s 2021 production for Garsington Opera, here in its first revival at its original location, equivocates about ...

Laura Wilde as Lisa and Aaron Cawley as Herman - Alastair Muir After the bright daylight and saucy flirtations of Garsington Opera’s season-opener The Elixir of Love, their second night plunged us ...

Weddings, as we all know, can be a minefield. All that tepid champagne and no canapés to soak it up, long hours of vertical drinking and bad dancing, heightened emotions and strange combinations of ...

A Fabulous Frolic, Magnificent Vocals and a Deeper Message Travelling to Garsington for a summer opera spectacular is always ...

Mozart’s forces of darkness and light fight it out alongside voluptuous Strauss on the lawns at Garsington Country house opera is not all cut-glass politeness. There’s healthy subversion afoot.

A manor house nestling snugly in six acres of glorious gardens – could there be a more perfect setting for al fresco opera? Yet Garsington Manor, with its manicured lawns, romantic lake and ...

The natural world flows through Haydn’s oratorio, The Creation, from new-made landscapes to darting birds and a roaring lion. In Garsington Opera’s new staging, a collaboration with Rambert dance ...